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Lei Ping

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Lei Ping is Assistant Professor of China Studies at The New School. She is also Coordinator of Chinese and Korean Studies and Faculty Advisor at India China Institute. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from New York University (NYU). Her research focuses on Marxism, urbanism, cultural politics, and social classes in Asian emerging economies. Her writings have appeared in leading academic journals such as Journal of Asian Studies, China Review International, NewBooks Asia. Her recent works examine socialist remolding of the Shanghai national bourgeoisie and everyday life in the Mao era, as well as the middle classes in Shanghai and New Delhi. She has taught courses on modern and contemporary Chinese history, political economy, art, cinema, East Asian pop culture as well as the Chinese language at The New School. In 2013, she launched the first field-based undergraduate summer study abroad program for The New School in Shanghai China in collaboration with Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts and Parsons School for Design.